1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bokay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from Eastern Shore of Maryland. 3 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: Dear friends, I'm going to tell you ahead of time 4 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: that you may hear children screaming in the background. They 5 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: are not mine, they are not being tortured. I'm visiting 6 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 1: one of my best friends for her birthday weekend. Um. 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: I say all that to say, you know, we need 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: to be nimble, kind of the way that you know, 9 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: our society needs to be with regard to COVID and 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: the fact that it's not over right. I know that, folks, 11 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: everyone is exhausted, everyone is tired, and everyone wants to 12 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: just move past. Right. This is what the Democratic governors 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: are saying as they are rolling back mask mandates, as 14 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: they are rolling back vaccine mandates. Just recently in DC, 15 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: which only had vaccines in place for restaurants for folks 16 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: to show their vaccinations in place for eight weeks. Guess what. 17 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: They've decided that it's no longer politically advantageous for the mayor, 18 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: so they've decided to end that. Folks. You know I 19 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: don't often say to you, well, both sides right, It's 20 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: actually the phrase that I can't stand the fucking most 21 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: both sides, Well, both sides are doing X, and both 22 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: sides are doing why. But I will say this, Democrats 23 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 1: had a leg to stand on as the party, right, 24 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: the actual political party that was putting public health and 25 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: public safety first. They were the political party that said, 26 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: we're following facts, we believe in science. Right, So for 27 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: anybody who these elusive independence that everyone loved to talk 28 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: about every fucking election cycle, except I've never met an independent, 29 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: you know, you want to believe that, Oh, Democrats are 30 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: doing the right thing, right, Like, it's very clear because 31 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: Republicans are doing everything that they can to be the 32 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: worst people, right. Like everything, it's like after every announcement, 33 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: every headline, it's like, oh, no, hold my beer, here's 34 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: somebody that is worse. Here's an incident that is worse. 35 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: Here's another book banning that is happening. Here's another rollback 36 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: of COVID, here's another lie that's being told. Right, So, Democrats, 37 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: I thought that they're saving grace going into midterms, was 38 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: going to be just that. Where the party that believes 39 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: in public safety, where the party that believes in science, 40 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: Where the party that believes in truth, and so that's 41 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: how we're going to be moving forward. Right. But no, no, no, 42 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: that's not what they're doing. They have decided instead, dear friends, 43 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: that it is going to be more politically expedient for 44 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: them or better somehow in the midterm elections to decide 45 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: to try on republicanism and just say, oh, you know, 46 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 1: people are just fed up with COVID, so we're going 47 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: to end restrictions and mask mandates. Now here's the thing. 48 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: I've been talking a lot of shit about the CDC 49 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: and the way that doctor Willinsky has had such a 50 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: communication nightmare over the past year plus, right, telling people, oh, 51 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: get vaccinated, take off your mask. Oh by the way, 52 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: put your masks back on. Oh by the way, and 53 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: not everybody needs a booster. Oh by the way, you 54 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: may need a fourth one. Right. But here's the thing, 55 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: here's what we know to be true. COVID over the 56 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: last two years has followed the same pattern, right, which 57 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,839 Speaker 1: is this, we had alpha, right, so COVID comes out 58 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: of the blue twenty twenty. We have the alpha variant. Right. 59 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: Within a short period of time, roughly seven to eight 60 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: months in to alpha, right, then we had what delta 61 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: Delta took over Alpha. Then roughly in another seven six 62 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: to eight month span, guess what came omicron. Right, So 63 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: now we're at a point where the incredible surge that 64 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: we hit. And mind you, I said this on my 65 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: other podcast, Democracy Ish, which if you're not listening to, 66 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: comes out weekly with my friend wajahat Ali. You should 67 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 1: check that out as well, really interesting in depth conversations 68 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: with the both of us each week. But here's the thing. 69 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: Sixty thousand Americans died last month, sixty thousand. We are 70 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: still at a place in this pandemic where two thousand 71 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: Americans dying every day. Right, But we've decided as a society, 72 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: as a culture, as a country that we don't really 73 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: give a dam. We don't give a dam, We have 74 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: no empathy. It doesn't matter to us that we are 75 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: putting each other in harm's way, so long as everyone 76 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: gets to pretend that normal still exists, whatever the fuck 77 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: that is, they want to be able to go back 78 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: to it. So we have collectively decided to engage in 79 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: the COVID gaslight and tell ourselves and each other right 80 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: that it's no longer a threat. Well, here's what's going 81 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: to happen. And I'm going to make this prediction. I'm 82 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: going to read the tea leaves in the way that 83 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: polsters tell us how elections are going to go. So 84 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: here is this. In this lull that we will have, 85 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: you will see things feel good and better as spring 86 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: starts to happen, as we enter into summer. I guarantee 87 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: you that before we enter into the fall season, midway 88 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: through summer, there will be another fucking variant, right, because 89 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: that is what the patterns have shown us. So for 90 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: these democratic I don't even care about the Republican governors, 91 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: but to these Democratic governors who think that they are 92 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: making this quote unquote politically smart decision, not the public 93 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: health decision, but a politically smart decision to make these 94 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: changes right before mid terms, I shit you not. That 95 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 1: we will have a new variant before November, right, and 96 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: if the pattern holds, it will happen by the end 97 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,039 Speaker 1: of summer as we head into the fall. So then 98 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: for those people, right, for these governors who are is 99 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: telling people, oh, it's okay, take off your mass Oh 100 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 1: we're not going to do vaccine checks anymore. It's just 101 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: on everybody. We're going to decide that this is endemic now, 102 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: even though, let me remind you, sixty thousand Americans died 103 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: last month of COVID, two thousand or dying every single day, 104 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: and before we get to summer, a million Americans will 105 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: have died from COVID. So no, you idiots, this is 106 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: not like the flu, because a million people don't die 107 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: over the course of two years from the fucking flu. 108 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: And if you want to have some type of normal 109 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: ish type of life, then you need to adapt. You 110 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: need to be nimble in this moment and not decide 111 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: to drop all of your COVID protocol in order for 112 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: this rush to normal that doesn't exist. Like, here's the thing. 113 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: I know that it is so difficult for us to 114 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: wrap our minds around the fact that two thousand and 115 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: nineteen wasn't that long ago. But our lives are so 116 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: drastically different then they were back then. The problems, the 117 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: issues that even I was talking about on this show 118 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: seem ridiculous now when we're facing global death rates at 119 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: numbers that we haven't seen since the Spanish flu. Right 120 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: that the numbers that we have seen in twenty twenty one, 121 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two with a vaccine are worse than 122 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: what we saw in twenty twenty. So how is it 123 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: that the party that is supposed to follow science, the 124 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: party that is supposed to be about public safety, has 125 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: decided that they're just too exhausted to keep going. So 126 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: instead you give Republicans the talking points that they need, 127 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 1: even though they don't do shit. They don't offer America platform, 128 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 1: they don't offer you any help, they don't offer you 129 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: a direction forward. All they do is offer you the 130 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:57,599 Speaker 1: word no, right, no, on top of white supremacy, racism, misogyny, islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia. 131 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,079 Speaker 1: That's the only thing that they are offering to you. 132 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,839 Speaker 1: But now Democrats have given them a gift, right. You See. 133 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 1: The funny thing is is that I have believed for 134 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: the longest time that Republicans who are going to make 135 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: it easy for Democrats, because it was going to be 136 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: so easy for people to see the writing on the 137 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 1: wall with Republicans, they want to return to nineteen fifty three. 138 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: They want segregation, They want to make segregation great again. 139 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: They want to whitewash your child's public school curriculum. They 140 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,959 Speaker 1: want to make it impossible to vote. The next thing 141 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: up is going to be we're counting jellybeans again, just 142 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 1: if you're black and brown, everybody else go to the 143 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: front of the line. They are saying the quiet parts 144 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: out loud, over and over again. So you would think 145 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: then it wouldn't be so hard to combat that narrative 146 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 1: and to offer up to the American people, here's your alternative, 147 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: people that want to exist in the twenty first century 148 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: with you and recognize that we are living in a 149 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: multiracial democracy, right that requires participation, because you see in 150 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: all the documents that people love to bring up, it's 151 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: said government foreign by the people, not a selected group 152 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:13,479 Speaker 1: of minority that have made themselves into authoritarianism and enshrined 153 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: with their over takeover of our judicial system, enshrined and 154 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:24,439 Speaker 1: codified into law, white supremacy. Again. You would think that 155 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: Democrats would be able to figure this out, but no, 156 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: Instead they have offered them a gift, which is that 157 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 1: you see COVID wasn't that big of a deal anyway, 158 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: because now the democratic governors are finally coming to their 159 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 1: senses where Republicans have been all along. So now the 160 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: people don't know who to trust and they don't know 161 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: who to believe in because you see all of the 162 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: things that this administration said on the campaign trail that 163 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: they were going to do, right, it's coming out in 164 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: drips and drabs. If at all, we have no voting rights, right, 165 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: we have no climate change legislation. I don't know about you, 166 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: but I want to let you know something. When I 167 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 1: left New York and headed down to Maryland, it was 168 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: sixty five fucking degrees outside. Now, hey, here's a thing. 169 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,479 Speaker 1: If we're all going to die anyway, I will absolutely 170 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,719 Speaker 1: enjoy some sunshine and some warm weather. But I want 171 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: us all to realize it's February in the Northeast. It 172 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: shouldn't be sixty five degrees. And last week, right after 173 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: a lovely fifty some odd degree day, it's snowed two 174 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: to three inches the next day. So, folks, what do 175 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: you think is happening here? Right like? This is the 176 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: new normal? The new normal is just abnormal. It is 177 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,200 Speaker 1: all of the things that the scientists had been warning 178 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: us about for twenty years. If you don't do something 179 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: about climate change, it's going to get to a point 180 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,960 Speaker 1: where the damage that is done is irreversible. Well, the 181 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: same thing is true about our fucking democracy right now. 182 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: If you don't do anything to fix right our broken system, 183 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: a system that Donald Trump has now told seventy five 184 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: million people or however many white supremacis decided to vote 185 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: for him, that the election was rigged. And now you 186 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: have a mirrie I mean, just a fucking bevy, right, 187 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: a voter suppression laws now across the country. Like, what 188 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: do you think is going to continue to happen when 189 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: you don't protect what is sacred? So it's the environment, 190 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: and today it's sixty five degrees in February and maybe 191 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,600 Speaker 1: it'll snow in fucking June. Right, what do you think 192 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: that that is going to do to your grocery bill? 193 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: For instance? Where do we think that we get this 194 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: food from? So if you have oh, I don't know, 195 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: extreme frost, extreme heat, droughts, right, that is going to 196 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: affect guess what food prices? Because you see the big farms, right, 197 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: how are they going to know when to harvest? Which 198 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: is going to make prices go up? All of this 199 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: is connected, but instead we look at these problems as 200 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: if they are silos. Right, Republicans don't want to talk 201 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: about climate change, but they want to talk about opening 202 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 1: up the economy. Well, I don't know what kind of 203 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: fucking economy you can have right when your basic needs 204 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: like food is going to be disrupted because you're going 205 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: to have to start outsourcing things that we used to 206 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: grow in the United States but will no longer be 207 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: able to grow and no longer be able to predict 208 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: the seasons of And who is that going to fall 209 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 1: on the consumer? You know? But they want to Even 210 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: the conversation that we have around climate change is one 211 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: that is still sitting in trying to convince people of 212 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: the obvious. And I'm just like, just start to look 213 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,239 Speaker 1: at your fucking grocery bills. That's not just because of inflation. 214 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: Things are going to get worse. And the reality is 215 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: that the one party that I continue to have faith 216 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: in because I thought that, oh hey right, they believe 217 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: in truth, they believe in science. They are for the people, 218 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: at least that that's what they set on the campaign trail. 219 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: But they are for the people, and they are for 220 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: science so long as it is convenient. But that's not 221 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: how this ship works. So here we are. Pandemic is 222 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: not done. News to everybody, especially those folks at Coachella 223 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: that are getting ready to put on their outdoor festival 224 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: for tens of thousands of fucking people with no protocols 225 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: in place, because guess what, right, money over everything else? 226 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: You know. So I don't know, folks, I don't know 227 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: how Democrats are going to showcase to the country right 228 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: when they have no voting rights bill passed, they have 229 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: no police reform passed, they have no climate change measured past. 230 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: Now the part of BBB, the human infrastructure that's stalled, 231 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: that's not going to pass. So what is it that 232 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: Democrats are going to be running on for mid terms? 233 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: You tell me if you can think about something in 234 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: the comment section that I am not thinking about, then 235 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: tell me in the comments section of the show, if 236 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: you're thinking about, Oh no, Danielle, they can run on this. 237 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: Please let me know, because I have been begging, banging 238 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: my head against the wall to figure out what is 239 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 1: the conversation going to be. I can tell you what 240 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: the headlines are going to be. Democracy dies. That's going 241 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: to be the headline. Right America is over. That's going 242 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: to be the headline come following the mid term elections, 243 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: because as soon as Republicans get in charge of the 244 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:08,239 Speaker 1: House and Kevin McCarthy or whatever piece of shit Republican 245 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: could be. They could anoint Marjorie Taylor Green, for all 246 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: we know, to be the new Speaker of the House. 247 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Can you imagine? Right, they will reinstate 248 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 1: the people that were censured, not you know, the ones 249 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: that believe that, you know, the election was free and fair, 250 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: and not the two that they basically booted out of 251 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: the party who sit on the one six Commission. Not 252 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 1: Chainey and Kissinger, but the Marjorie Taylor Green. Oh well, 253 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: that's the future of the party, she told us herself. 254 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: And by virtue of the fact that nobody ever has 255 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: that racist, anti semite, ever transphobe, ever offer up an 256 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: apology or say that that's not who we are, it 257 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: is not outside of the realm of possibility that someone 258 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: absolutely batshit crazy if Republicans win in midterms, will be 259 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,800 Speaker 1: the new Speaker of the House. So all of the investigations, 260 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: what little is happening, will be done. They will gum 261 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,880 Speaker 1: up the works at the Department of Justice. They will 262 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: gut finally finish right with public education. I mean, folks, 263 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: I just don't think that everyone gets what's at stake. 264 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: And I spend each and every day trying to figure 265 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: out how how do I tell this story better? You know, 266 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: I try, and I scream at the top of my lungs, 267 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 1: not because I'm doing it for show, but because I 268 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: am really that fucking angry, you know. I just it's 269 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: like Democrats feel to me like they are trying to lose, 270 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: that they are trying to make sure that our country 271 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: is over right. And when I look at this administration 272 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: that again I wanted to give the benefit of the 273 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: doubt too. I wanted to give them time because they 274 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: were inheriting, right, something that was terrible. They were inheriting 275 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: a catastrophe. But at that same time, right in this 276 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: same moment in Vain, it's been over a year, and 277 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 1: again I say, what have they done? What have they 278 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: offered us? You can't continue to run on public health 279 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: and safety when your own democratic governors are deciding that 280 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,400 Speaker 1: they are no longer going to listen to you, right. 281 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: You can't run on the success of the vaccine when 282 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,880 Speaker 1: we still have more than a quarter of the population 283 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: that isn't vaccinated. You can't run on the fact that, 284 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:47,080 Speaker 1: like people's lives got to go back to quote unquote normal, 285 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: even though we knew those with brains that that was 286 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: never really going to happen. But you can't run on 287 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: that either. And now you've turned your back on the virus. 288 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 1: And you think that because we as a soci say 289 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: COVID is done, the virus is like, oh okay, I'm 290 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: finished too. I guess I'll move on now. It's not 291 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: how it works. So I sit here deeply worried and troubled. 292 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: I am deeply worried and troubled because I feel like 293 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: we are at an a point where the end is inevitable. 294 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: I feel like we are at a point and even 295 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: I just had a conversation with my friend as I 296 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 1: walked in with my friends and they're like, you know, Danielle, 297 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,239 Speaker 1: sometimes I find it really hard to watch you. And 298 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 1: I said, you know why, because everything that you say 299 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: is true, and you just say it really fast and 300 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: really straight. But there is nowhere that I can point 301 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: to like it's just not easy to listen to. It's 302 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: not easy to hear the truth. And I said, I 303 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: get it, it's not easy for me to say it right. 304 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: But I feel like we're running out of time, so 305 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 1: I don't have the time to you know, bullshit around 306 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: and say, oh, well, maybe if we do X, why 307 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: will happen? And I'm like, no, guys, you kind of 308 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: know that that's not true. We can have faith, but 309 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: it is not going to be in the fact that 310 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: Democrats may hold on to power, because they have already 311 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 1: shown the country that they don't know what to do 312 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: with power once it's given to them. They are a disappointment. 313 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: I'm at a point with Democrats right now where I 314 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: really do want to throw up my hands right where 315 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 1: I'm sitting around and I'm wondering why Donald Trump isn't 316 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: in jail. I'm wondering why white people who continue to 317 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 1: break the law, who are criminal are able to get 318 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: off scott free. I'm wondering why Democrats keep saying in Unison, 319 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: no one is above the law. But then you have 320 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 1: an ag that is apparently a mime who has offered nothing, 321 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: no hope that we are restoring anybody's institutions or restoring 322 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: anybody's faith. You know, earlier in the week and I 323 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: spoke about this, but I want to talk about it again. 324 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: You know, I have really started to unpack what is 325 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: happening in Ottawa, in Canada, and you know, we are Americans. 326 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: Let's just be real, right, we're really fucking self centered. 327 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: We don't really give a shit about what is happening 328 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: in other countries by virtue of you know, how far 329 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: away we are with the rest of the world. But 330 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:58,720 Speaker 1: Canada is right, you know, to our north. And what 331 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: is happening in Ottawa with this vaccine protests and the 332 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: way that they have used these you know, semi trucks 333 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: that apparently can't be moved to essentially block off the 334 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: road to government and shut down the entire city, and 335 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: they are being funded by right wingers in the United States, 336 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: where people reporters are like, why are there so many 337 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: American flags? Like this is not how Canadians are. But 338 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: they have these fucking transplants that are coming around and 339 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 1: you know, the cops, right, they're not doing anything to 340 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: stop people. And come to find out, guess who are 341 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: some of the people that are in this quote unquote 342 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: protest that is happening in Ottawa active police, active military. 343 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: So we're like, why hasn't anybody been arrested? Right? Oh, 344 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: because they have a quote unquote right to protest. And 345 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:11,719 Speaker 1: this week Trudeau right has given himself outsized power in 346 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: order to be able to gain control back over a 347 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 1: situation that they kind of have given over to the protesters. 348 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: Now why is this important? Because what is happening in 349 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: Ottawa is gonna fucking happen in the United States. And 350 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: also where do you think that they got the idea from. 351 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: Do we all forget when white supremacst decided to take 352 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: over the to take over the capitol in Michigan? We 353 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: did we forget that that happened? Do we forget that 354 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: there was a plan to kidnap right and try in 355 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: somebody's people's court. I'm sure in rape and murder the 356 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: governor right and those people were arrested, Like, do we 357 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: not get that the tactics that we are seeing being 358 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: used in being used in other places where the right 359 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,680 Speaker 1: wing is not the majority of people, but they are 360 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: the majority of who is being heard and who is 361 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: being shown. And the more spotlight that they get, the 362 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 1: more reporting that is done, the more people that come. 363 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: And because once again white people can do no wrong, 364 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: they're able to set up an entire fucking Tailgate protest 365 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: over the course of three weeks. I don't know in 366 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:39,320 Speaker 1: whose world that that happens in, but all I know 367 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: is that in this upcoming election, if folks are not 368 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: paying attention to what has happened with the insurrection a 369 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 1: year ago, to what is happening above us in the north, 370 00:24:54,720 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: to how these right wingers continue to organize and mobilize right, 371 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: because the Department of Justice is doing such a fucking 372 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 1: poor shit job of actually taking down the people who 373 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: funded the insurrection, who were the architects of the insurrection. 374 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: So all this time has passed, handful of people have 375 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,720 Speaker 1: been arrested, given some slaps on the wrist or being 376 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: able to just go home, right, to give themselves up right, 377 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: So all they're doing is sharpening their knives, polishing literally 378 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: their arsenals, just waiting for the next green light from 379 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 1: their leaders who are telling you out loud that they 380 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: want another civil war. But once again we're going to 381 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: find ourselves caught off guard. Where did this come from? 382 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, we need a documentary, an investigation into 383 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: understanding how another insurrection could happen because you failed to 384 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 1: stop the first one and then you didn't hold any 385 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: of those people accountable. So basically giving a blueprint to 386 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,840 Speaker 1: the next round to make sure that it is successful, 387 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,159 Speaker 1: and just you know, to say this success looks different 388 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,360 Speaker 1: to different people. Your ability to storm the Capitol building, 389 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: to be able to shit in the halls of democracy 390 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: and then go home and brag about it on Facebook 391 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: and literally nothing happened to you. I don't know. I 392 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: don't have kids, but I'm pretty sure that when they 393 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: have poor behavior and you don't course correct it, and 394 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: then they continue that behavior and then guess what, it escalates, right, 395 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: because they haven't been held accountable. So if we thought 396 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: that one six look bad, right, what do you think 397 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: that the next iteration is going to look like? I 398 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: think it's going to look like bullets and tanks, and 399 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: I don't mean tanks on our side, right, Because we're 400 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: again not paying attention. We have allowed our guard to 401 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: fall completely by the wayside because the people who are 402 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:18,720 Speaker 1: causing the harm are white, and because we don't want 403 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: to address that fact, we're going to be quote unquote 404 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: card off guard by I guess a whole fucking parade 405 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: full of you know, lone wolves folks. As I end 406 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: this week too, I really once again cannot believe that 407 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: it has been four years since the Parkland shooting. There 408 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 1: has been no good news to report on. If you 409 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: are a person that works in the gun movement right, 410 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 1: the guns safety movement right, that has been trying to 411 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: pass legislation to make this country more safe. You know 412 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,920 Speaker 1: what New Zealand was able to do after their first 413 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: mass shooting, something that America hasn't been able to do 414 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: in the twenty plus years since Columbine. There was good 415 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: news this week on top of I guess recognizing the 416 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 1: anniversary of the Parkland shooting is that now several years 417 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: removed from Sandy Hook, which is when I knew that 418 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: any gun policies in America were just dead in the water. 419 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: When we were okay with a classroom of kindergarten and 420 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: first graders and their teachers being gunned down and we 421 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: did nothing, I knew that we were done. Because you know, 422 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: even with the lies that Republicans tell themselves about being 423 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: the party of family values, when they don't give a 424 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: shit about kids, being the party of kids and hope, 425 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: and you know, we need to put our town. What 426 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 1: about the children? Right Like any time that you wanted 427 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: to talk about sex, said, what about the children? Any 428 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: time that you want to protect them from a global 429 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: health pandemic. No, the children, they can't they can't work 430 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: under with masks. You know, what about this? What about that? 431 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: That's it is the what about ism of Republicans. But 432 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: I thought, as many did, there's no way, right, there's 433 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,760 Speaker 1: no way that after elementary school kids are shot dead 434 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: in their classroom that you wouldn't have bipartisan legislation done 435 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: in the blink of an eye. But no, But the 436 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: families of Sandy Hook did something that had never been 437 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: done before. They sued the gun manufacturer. They sued Remington 438 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: because that was the company that produced the weapon that 439 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: was used to kill their kids, their elementary school children. 440 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 1: So Remington, for the first time announced, right, it was 441 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: announced this week when news broke, are paying seventy three 442 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: million dollars to the families of those that lost their children, 443 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:16,240 Speaker 1: their babies. Seventy three million. I thought to myself as 444 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: I saw that number, and again, you know, the headlines 445 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: will say historic, historic, win, And I think to myself, 446 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: there were, if I believe, if I remember correctly, twenty 447 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: four people that were killed twenty four and again I 448 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: say people, because it was teachers and children, twenty four 449 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: seventy three million. I'm not really great at math, but 450 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: I know that the price of a life is more 451 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: than what Remington settled for. And I certainly know that 452 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: every birthday, every anniversary, that the money that these families 453 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: are getting is not feeling any void of loss that 454 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: they will continue to feel for the rest of their lives, 455 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,960 Speaker 1: and then be able to look around and realize that 456 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 1: their government, their country doesn't really give a fuck about 457 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: them and their loss. That they've joined a club that 458 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: nobody ever wants to join, those of families that have 459 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: been broken apart by gun violence, whether it is a 460 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: mass shooting, whether it is a regular every day shooting, 461 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: that no one should have to live under those conditions. 462 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: Nobody should have to live in a war zone. Nobody 463 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: should have to be afraid to go to the supermarket, 464 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: to go to church, to go to a synagogue, to 465 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: go to a mosque, right to go to a movie 466 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: theater because of what will happen. You know, my mother 467 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: told me the other day, she goes, you know, I 468 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: haven't really been to a movie theater. And this is 469 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: you know, before COVID obviously, but she's just like, not 470 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 1: ever since that shooting, people are you're sitting ducks in there? 471 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 1: And I said, you're sitting duck everywhere in America. There 472 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: are more guns in this country than there are people. 473 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: There were two and a half guns to every single 474 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: person in this country. How fucking sick is that? What 475 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: does it say? But again, we accept it as the norm, right, 476 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 1: We accept this, this fervent gun culture, as just being 477 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: a part of who this country is. It is blood soaked. 478 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: We expect too much of people, and we always always 479 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: cave to the least among us. The fact that we 480 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 1: can't agree that no one outside of military personnel, not 481 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: even of the fucking police in this country, who you know, 482 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 1: are fucked up. No one should have access to an 483 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: AAR fifteen if you are not in somebody's military wearing 484 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: fati eaks, what are you doing with that? But we 485 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: couldn't even agree on that. We couldn't even agree as 486 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: two parties to get rid of high impact magazines. Oh, 487 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: it's a slippery slope. Do you know what's a slippery slope? 488 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: Fucking mass shootings and doing nothing about it. I keep 489 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: thinking to myself, twenty years ago, when Columbine happened, what 490 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 1: would school shootings have become a thing? Would active school 491 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: shooting drills have become a norm for American children? If 492 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,080 Speaker 1: our country had had the fucking courage to do something 493 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 1: the first time had happened. I can't even count how 494 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,120 Speaker 1: many mass shootings there have been because friends, let me 495 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: just be clear, we can riddle off the ones that 496 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,800 Speaker 1: make the headline news right where there are you know, 497 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: ten twenty thirty people that are gunned down, But a 498 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: mass shooting, it's technically four or more people. Right in America, 499 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,839 Speaker 1: there's a mass shooting like every day, multiple times a day. 500 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 1: And I said it during work Wednesday. America is a 501 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 1: dangerous fucking country. It really is. When you are going 502 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 1: to when you recognize when you kind of look at 503 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: America on paper, right, it's like when you're going to 504 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: set up a dating profile you look at America on 505 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: paper and that it is just one giant red flag, 506 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: Like it would be like, girl, you in danger. This 507 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,399 Speaker 1: America they ain't the one for you, right. They got 508 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: shooting debts all the time, They got the highest fucking 509 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 1: COVID numbers in the world, They are placing low in 510 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 1: their public education, socioeconomic measures are falling by the wayside. Girl, 511 00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: this person ain't for you. Look away, not even look away, 512 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,800 Speaker 1: run away. And so the joke, right that was made 513 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 1: was that America is like is like a developing nation 514 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: and a fucking Gucci belt. That is the truth. We 515 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: are nothing but facade, right, And the sad thing is 516 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: the sad thing is is that many of us actually 517 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,839 Speaker 1: believed the lies that we have been told. I know, 518 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 1: I did. I believe in democracy. I believe that America 519 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:36,239 Speaker 1: for a lot of people is a great place or was. 520 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,799 Speaker 1: But once you start to peel back that onion, once 521 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,439 Speaker 1: you start to realize that everything is tied to white 522 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: supremacy and racism, every policy, every institution, right, once you 523 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: realize that it was right before my sister was born 524 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 1: that women were allowed to get credit cards on their own, folks, 525 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 1: that was in the nineteen seventies. How have we ever 526 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: been able to say that we are better than quote 527 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,919 Speaker 1: unquote some of the parts of the evil of access right, 528 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 1: that's the axis remembered during the Bush years. It was 529 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,160 Speaker 1: all of these evil Middle East during countries. And one 530 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: of the things that they loved to bring up was 531 00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: look at their treatment of women. I'm like, do you, 532 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,879 Speaker 1: motherfucker see what you do here to women in the 533 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: United States where you are about to officially overturn rov 534 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:33,960 Speaker 1: Wade where women weren't allowed to like have financial independence 535 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: until the seventies and I mean mid seventies. You look 536 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: at America on paper, right, and this is why there 537 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: were such a fight right now to erase and whitewash 538 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 1: the truth not just about the enslaved population of Africans, 539 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: not just about America's origin an old fucking sin, right, 540 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: but also what they have done to women, LGBTQ people, 541 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:11,719 Speaker 1: Native Americans, all of it being eliminated to preserve what 542 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:17,720 Speaker 1: the big lie, the original big lie, American exceptionalism. Pause, 543 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 1: let me say the you know, with the asterisk white 544 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:28,240 Speaker 1: American exceptionalism, because on paper, when you see the truth 545 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,560 Speaker 1: out in bullet form, this is not a country that 546 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,760 Speaker 1: most of us, if we were not born here, would say, 547 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: would refer to as anybody's beacon on a hill, as 548 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:46,720 Speaker 1: anybody's model of any good goddamn thing. We are living in, friends, 549 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,759 Speaker 1: really unsettling times. And you know this, right, you know 550 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,759 Speaker 1: this to be true. And I think that as my 551 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: friend said to me, you know, Danny all, sometimes it 552 00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,960 Speaker 1: just find it hard to listen to you. It's not because, 553 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,319 Speaker 1: as you know, what you're saying isn't right. It's just 554 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:08,279 Speaker 1: because it's just too much truth. Well, my response to 555 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,799 Speaker 1: that is we've been fed too many lies and we 556 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,279 Speaker 1: are running out of time for the truth to actually 557 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,440 Speaker 1: fucking matter and make a difference. That I'm still busy 558 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 1: out here trying to wake people up to their power 559 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,920 Speaker 1: and to the truth of what this nation is because 560 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: you see, you see that you cannot work on things, 561 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 1: you can't shape things that you refuse to actually examine, 562 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,920 Speaker 1: right like, you can't make things better when you have 563 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: lied and said, oh but it's great. America is not great. 564 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,879 Speaker 1: It can be a lot fucking better. But you have 565 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: one spineless political party and then the other one that 566 00:38:53,239 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: is a fascist regime, and the fascists are winning. So, folks, 567 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 1: you know, I know that each and every day I 568 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,080 Speaker 1: offer hard truths that are difficult to swallow. But I 569 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 1: got to tell you I don't have time for lies, 570 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: and I don't think any of you do either. I 571 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 1: just don't want to feel like it's too late. But 572 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 1: it's how I'm beginning to feel. All right, folks, Now 573 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,120 Speaker 1: for your woke moment of wellness after all of that, 574 00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,640 Speaker 1: I am, as I said at the top of the show, 575 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 1: visiting my one of my best friends for her birthday weekend, 576 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,439 Speaker 1: and I continue to say and to remind myself how 577 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:51,640 Speaker 1: important community and friendship is, that living in these uncertain 578 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,080 Speaker 1: and unstable times should be a consistent reminder to how 579 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 1: fleeting life is right, and that we need to make 580 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:04,879 Speaker 1: time for our friends, for our family to check in right, 581 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 1: especially with the ones, the folks that you think are 582 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 1: really strong. Oh, they seem to be able to handle 583 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:17,000 Speaker 1: everything that can be a facade as well. Right, It 584 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 1: is important for us to take the time to gather 585 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,520 Speaker 1: still in small groups, still thoughtfully because we're in a pandemic, 586 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:30,719 Speaker 1: but to gather to share in stories, to kind of 587 00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,879 Speaker 1: lean on each other because some days are just too rough, 588 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:42,319 Speaker 1: and so for this moment of wellness, you know, use 589 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 1: sometime this weekend, send some text messages to the friends 590 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: or the family that you keep meaning to reach out to, 591 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,640 Speaker 1: but then you get so busy that it doesn't happen, 592 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,600 Speaker 1: and you let more time and more water go underneath 593 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:04,400 Speaker 1: that bridge. Send a text, do and impromptu face time. 594 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:10,320 Speaker 1: Let people know the ones who you love and care about, 595 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,120 Speaker 1: whether they are your actual family, blood family, whether they 596 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:19,520 Speaker 1: are the family that you have put together yourself. Let 597 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,440 Speaker 1: people know in the moments that you are thinking about them, 598 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,560 Speaker 1: that you love them, that you care about them. Never 599 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,319 Speaker 1: get too busy to make space and time for those 600 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 1: that you love, because you don't know how much time 601 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,839 Speaker 1: any of us have. And if there is one thing 602 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,120 Speaker 1: that has been made clear over the last two years 603 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,920 Speaker 1: of living in this health pandemic, living in the threat 604 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,040 Speaker 1: of our democracy ending, living in all of this, it 605 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:52,080 Speaker 1: is how precious, how precious the time is, and so 606 00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,560 Speaker 1: use it wisely, spend it with those that bring you 607 00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:00,280 Speaker 1: joy as a consistent reminder that life is not about 608 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,520 Speaker 1: the grind, It is about the light, It is about 609 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,719 Speaker 1: the release, It is about love, and we should never 610 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 1: be too busy for that. That is it for me today, 611 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:23,800 Speaker 1: dear friends, recording live from Eastern Shore, Maryland. I wish 612 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:29,759 Speaker 1: you a happy, healthy, RESTful, joyful weekend and I will 613 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:34,800 Speaker 1: be back here on Monday. As always, dear friends, Power 614 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,839 Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get 615 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,000 Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.